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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Beginnings: Arrival and Meeting Miss Winter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Margaret's opinion about Vida Winter's writing?
(a) She likes the writing, but has no interest in meeting WInter.
(b) She loves it, and spends days doing nothing else but reading Winter's books.
(c) She is surprised that Winter seems to have stolen one on Margaret's stories.
(d) She is frustrated by the happy endings and predictable plots.

2. At what age does Margaret discover she was a twin, and that this twin died at birth?
(a) Five.
(b) As an adult, as she is narrating this book.
(c) Ten.
(d) Fourteen.

3. In the first interview, Margaret asks for three bits of information. What is the response to this from Vida Winter?
(a) She refuses, and threatens to find another author.
(b) She gives many examples from stories about the importance of three.
(c) She refuses to answer Margaret, saying she (Ms. Winter) will tell the story on her terms.
(d) She laughs, saying that five is a better number.

4. What is surprising about the appearance of the letter for Margaret?
(a) The type is faint and barely recognizable.
(b) Each line is in a new color of ink.
(c) Margaret's name is mispelled, and there is no return address.
(d) It is handwritten by a person who is either a child or an invalid.

5. What is one overwhelming first impression of Vida Winter's house?
(a) It is entirely silent.
(b) The laughter of children.
(c) An odd odor that reminds Margaret of a funeral home.
(d) The fragrance of lilacs.

Short Answer Questions

1. On her first night at Vida Winter's house, Margaret looks out into the night before going to bed. What does she see?

2. The following can be said about the bookshop:

3. What promise does Margaret ask of Winter before committing to the writing of her biography?

4. Margaret says of herself, "gradually, my reading became less random." What becomes the primary interest, or focus, of her reading?

5. Where does the first meeting between Margaret Lea and Vida Winter take place?

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